mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> writes: > Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the > facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ?
If by “protect” you mean “prevent editing these lines but not others”, no I think that's not a feature of any editor I know. You can achieve some protection by temporarily *hiding* lines you're not wanting to edit. Vim has “folding” (hiding a set of lines). Emacs has “narrow&"9 to see nothing *but* a specific range of lines. > I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the > wrong one and then it doesn't work. I would use Emacs “narrow” commands for that; quickly narrow the focus of the editor to only show me the area I'm meaning to edit, then easily widen the range when I need to. -- \ “Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against | `\ unintelligible propositions.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1816-07-30 | _o__) | Ben Finney